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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Balloon lost near Ontario NY tonight

Anyone east of Rochester able to help?

My friend Dave,VE3KCL launched a balloon from Toronto and it
crash landed near Ontario NY. The call sign transmitted is VE3OCL using WSPR
modes for 20/30m bands. Apparently it landed perfectly somewhere and is still
transmitting as I type this note (6:27pm 11/8/17).

Maybe someone in the area will take interest and listen for
it...or see it somewhere.

Details are here of this payload and location. I still do not
know the exact 6 character grid yet but it could transmit that soon on this
page with the other data - link: http://www.qrp-labs.com/flights/u3b11.html

Just wanted to share this as someone may actually have it in
their back yard :)

5 comments:

Some in the area have said to be hearing it.It operates from solar power and looks like weather will pretty much be the doom of the electronics.Never know however with these things.The location is vast using the data and the closest the tracking will be is within a 3x4 mile grid square (6 character). So to hunt it down,one would need to be pretty good using direction finding and eyesight.Or should it be in plain view off a road way.But maybe someday it will be found and if a ham hears about it,you know where it came from.Thanks all for the interest.Jim,N2NXZ

For what it is worth,one of my flights are still flying for a 3rd day.Tomorrow will be tough as the sun is lower in the sky near Greenland and will only power the system for a short time tomorrow.Seen here as U3S19 - https://tracker.habhub.org/#!mt=roadmap&mz=5&qm=1_day&f=U3S19Detail of payload builds here for those interested - http://radio-signals.com/forum/Jim

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